Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centres of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) grabbing flour and “basic survival items”, the organisation said on Sunday.
“This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement.
One of the warehouses, located in Deir al-Balah, is where UNRWA stores supplies from the humanitarian convoys crossing into Gaza from Egypt.
Civilization is 3 missed meals from collapse…
Usually this quote is a warning about preparing for natural disasters, we don’t usually have humans trying to design total social collapse on their neighbors.
I think they’re a bit over three meals now, more like 3 weeks worth of meals missed.
Why wasn’t the UNRWA already giving out all these supplies? Why did they have to break in?
Maybe greedy people trying to stockpile. Maybe people who are trying to bypass ration system to get food to those people who were unable to stand in line. It’s many people with what are most likely a variety of personal reasons, but all are desperate to survive and stuck in a horrible inhumane situation.
Two years the west was getting into fist fights for toilet paper. People trying to moral high ground this one are special.
There’s always a bottleneck when distribution of anything is happening and desperate people are more likely to be unwilling or unable to wait.
So why did they break in? Every one will have their own specific reasons, but desperation is the most likely reason.
The condition for the convoys getting through was that Hamas wouldn’t be allowed to have any. Presumably they had a distribution system set up or were in the process of setting one up to do just that, which failed to reach enough people.
israel controls Gaza’s borders, including sea and air space, and blocks a lot of humanitarian aid.
The article says that people in Gaza broke into UN warehouses and took the supplies. So the supplies must have been already inside Gaza.
I did say a lot of, they’ve still managed to receive some. But what I mean is, it’s really hard to have personnel there to distribute it. Especially right now when not even Gazan Palestinians are allowed to be in parts of Gaza
Yeah, that makes sense, especially after they started refusing UN staff visas, for talking about their war crimes.
They are squatting in ruins at this point. Those people need help.
Oh no the un aid center is providing aid
Well it’s not optimal that aid can’t be distributed in the best way possible.
As UN officials basically said: It’s completely understandable.
Yeah I know lol I was just making jokes
This is the best summary I could come up with:
JERUSALEM, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centres of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) grabbing flour and “basic survival items”, the organisation said on Sunday.
“This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement.
One of the warehouses, located in Deir al-Balah, is where UNRWA stores supplies from the humanitarian convoys crossing into Gaza from Egypt.
Aid supplies to Gaza have been choked since Israel began bombarding the densely-populated Palestinian enclave in response to a deadly attack by its ruling militant group Hamas on Oct. 7.
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UNRWA has said that its ability to help people in Gaza has been completely stretched by air strikes that have killed more than 50 of its staff and restricted the movement of supplies.
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Established in 1949 following the first Arab-Israeli war, UNRWA provides public services including schools, primary healthcare and humanitarian aid in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
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I never noticed media referring to the residents of the Gaza Strip as Gazans before. Are there groups of people other than Palestinians that reside in the Gaza Strip?
